August 2022

VOlUME 05 ISSUE 08 AUGUST 2022
Hassan Al-Banna and His Modern Political Islam
Omar Gomaa
A PhD Candidate at Charles Sturt University, Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation.
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i8-04

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ABSTRACT

Since the foundation of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, the movement has had a formidable political perspective combined with Islamic teachings. Regrettably, a critical aspect of political Islam rarely occurs or is inadequately addressed in Egyptian politics. The collapse of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt had, of course, influenced the Islamist movements around the globe. It also highlighted the battle between modern political Islam and the state. Egypt, however, is the most influential Islamic country worldwide, but it is also an unacceptable state for Islamist movements and political Islam. Thus, this paper politically investigates to understand what Hassan al-Banna founds in modern political Islam? And it answers a fundamental question; why political Islam has failed in Egypt, albeit the Muslim Brotherhood has been practising politics for more than 90 years. The paper ascertained that modern political Islam had failed due to the failure of the Muslim Brotherhood, not the structure and context of modern political Islam ideology.

KEYWORDS:

The Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan al-Banna, Egypt, Political Islam,

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